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Reasons for wanting to become an Army officer
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monkey123
LE
I thought the army was all about posh cnuts telling thick cnuts what to do ?
Thus being properly dressed as a bursar
Or Civil Servant
Dashing_Chap
LE
It seems that the reasons for wanting to be an officer have changed over time, in the past I think social class had the most to do with it as you could purchase a commission.
Personally, I think I would have made a brilliant First World War staff officer. I look quite good in a uniform, I can grow a moustache, I'm generally quite incompetent and I much prefer leisure to doing any actual work. Occasionally I'm also over-confident and speak with an air of authority about things I know F/A about.
I'd also be quite prepared to sacrifice the lives of the rougher, working-class men for the sake of my own advancement.
Personally, I think I would have made a brilliant First World War staff officer. I look quite good in a uniform, I can grow a moustache, I'm generally quite incompetent and I much prefer leisure to doing any actual work. Occasionally I'm also over-confident and speak with an air of authority about things I know F/A about.
I'd also be quite prepared to sacrifice the lives of the rougher, working-class men for the sake of my own advancement.
Paymaster
LE
I always wanted to be the bursar of a big girl’s school
that’s big girls not a big school!
Dashing_Chap
LE
If only more people paid attention to that.
Paymaster
LE
Not that big!
Fixed, etc.
Donny
ADC
At the risk of excessive pedantry what you’ve written actually refers to the school of a big girl (singular), rather than of big girls (plural). If you’d placed the apostrophe just one letter to the right you might have been able to indulge your fantasies.
Blogg
LE
That's becoming a Lefty Human Rights Lawyer in Islington.Anyone mentioned Stepping Stone to Parliament?
Do try to keep up at the back.
You think?
Service History: How Many MPs Have Military Experience?
Six hundred and fifty Members of Parliament were elected following the 2019 General Election on 12 December.
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Mid eighties we had an occifer-cadet who answered the question with "So I can sit in the landrover when it's raining". As far as I know he continued working in McDonalds or somewhere similar.
Whiskybreath
MIA
Commanding troops, managing the military life of soldiers, shurely.
It always make me worry when people say that. How much of a problem with people behaving like a dick do you have to have for that to need stating explicitly?
Chef
LE
You think?
Service History: How Many MPs Have Military Experience?
Six hundred and fifty Members of Parliament were elected following the 2019 General Election on 12 December.
The spread of ex-forces over the parties is telling:
'Forty-one represent the Conservative Party, while two are Labour members.' Plus the DUP has two members who've served in the UDR.
I think a lot of us on here wondered why Labour didn't make more of Dan Jarvis?
He now seems to have been sidelined into Mayor of Sheffield.
He was distinctly a fish out of water as far as the Leader's Office and the NEC were concerned. A number of senior Party apparatchiks couldn't even bring themselves to speak to him. He was fine with the Parliamentary party, most MPs, with a few exceptions, are sensible, moderate folk, the Party hierarchy, maybe not so much.....
Bad enough being an ex-Para officer, imagine if he'd been Jewish as well.
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